Minor earthquake, 2.81 mag has occurred near Mayfield in Utah

A minor earthquake with magnitude 2.81 (ml/mb) was detected on Wednesday, 18 kilometers (11 miles) from Mayfield in Utah. Exact location of event, depth 8.12 km, -111.52916666667° West, 39.032333333333° North. The temblor was detected at 23:08:24 / 11:08 pm (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 24/07/24 / 2024-07-24 23:08:24 / July 24, 2024 @ 11:08 pm. All ids that are associated to the event: uu80076406. Unique identifier: uu80076406. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 8.12 km (5 miles).

Country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Richfield, Ephraim. The epicenter was 56 km (35 miles) from Richfield (c. 7 600 pop), 37 km (23 miles) from Ephraim (c. 6 100 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor quakes in the world.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 18 km ESE of Mayfield, Utah.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.81 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-111.52916666667° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	39.032333333333° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	8.12 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	18 km ESE of Mayfield, Utah	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2024-07-24 23:08:24	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-07-25 13:22:14	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset		Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt		The total number of felt reports
CDI		The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI		The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level		The alert level from the PAGER earthquake impact scale. Green, Yellow, Orange or Red.
Review Status	reviewed	Indicates whether the event has been reviewed by a human.
Tsunami	0	This flag is set to "1" for large events in oceanic regions and "0" otherwise. The existence or value of this flag does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist.
SIG	121	A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network	uu	The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources	,uu,	A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used	38	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.1371	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.14 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	41	The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type	ml	The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type	earthquake	Type of seismic event.
Event ID	uu80076406	Id of event.
Event Code	80076406	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,uu80076406,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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